Economic downturn hurts pets
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »Diana Bardsley wiped tears from her eyes as she recalled taking food off her plate to feed her beloved spaniel Hunter and two Siamese cats. Her greatest fear: that she could be forced to surrender the animals as she struggled to ...
RSPCA tells schools ‘no pets’
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »The classroom guineapig faces extinction if schools follow new advice from the RSPCA urging an end to the tradition of taking the natural world into schools. School pets may be harmed by constant touching from excited pupils and poor living conditions, ...
Lakeshore adds areas off-limits to pets
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »Nothing helps Nat Gray unwind from a long day at work like taking his black Lab Rupert for a walk on the miles of open beach at Empire. Walking the trails and beaches that make up the Sleeping Bear Dunes National ...
Simulation Shows What It’s Like to Be Boss
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Reptile Pets | No Comments »Santa Clara, Calif. -- For three days in mid-March, software-development manager Ted Tabloski got a taste of what it would be like to run his company. Mr. Tabloski joined 25 colleagues in a game that made them top executives ...
Tiny Travelers Welcomed with Open Arms
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in Reptile Pets | No Comments »Traveling with your kids is getting easier than ever before. In recent years the travel industry has experienced a boom in family travel and rather than assuming that parents will only take children to family oriented sites such as ...
Cat-Alepsy
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in Pet Supply | No Comments »A few weeks ago you talked about donkeys in theology, philosophy and politics when you appeared with a donkey on a TV programme about pets. Although it was called Petra, after you, it was not actually yours. However, there are ...
Bearing up: when holding on to loved ones can help ease the grief
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »IT LOOKS like a teddy bear. Fluffy, cuddly. There's a zip in its tummy where you insert a small pouch containing the ashes of someone you still long to hold in your arms. It's a Huggable Urn.A family in Western ...
Truth must be told in this Tibetan story
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »I TRAVELLED to Tibet in 1991. It was scary. Tourists were confined to the capital, Lhasa, so I had to leave before dawn to visit a village while researching the life of Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935-84), whose biography I was writing. On the ...
Della Nonna
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »The Hawthorn length of Glenferrie Road is a bit of a wasteland for places to eat. Especially when compared with the Malvern end, where cheap and fine eateries cluster like stars in the Milky Way. Maybe Della Nonna will help. This Italian restaurant was ...
Della Nonna
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »The Hawthorn length of Glenferrie Road is a bit of a wasteland for places to eat. Especially when compared with the Malvern end, where cheap and fine eateries cluster like stars in the Milky Way. Maybe Della Nonna will help. This Italian restaurant was ...
